Well, he did win a national championship at Tennessee. Martin had this to say about his unexpected return to the NFL: "Yeah, my career has kind of worked out like that ... Peyton sets them up and I knock them down. I don't mind though. I kind of enjoy it, actually. He's always been a bit of a dork and it's fun to see him get all frustrated and down on himself again. It's what keeps me going." (hat tip to Honest Wagner)

This week, in addition to his picks, Bill Simmons has some thoughts on Jerome Bettis's ever-expanding waistline (as well as a bunch of other stuff). In other news, Matt Hasselbeck is bald, New Mexico has Happy Meal issues, Dick Vermeil cries at press conferences, and Tom Brady has been disrespected at least twice in the time it took you to read this.

Those of us who grew up in the Detroit area will always have a special reverance for Windsor, the Canadian city a short drive away, where the drinking age is 19, prostitution is legal, casinos are abundant and Cuban cigars are widely available. With tens of thousands of fans ready to converge on Detroit for the Super Bowl, there's no doubt that many of them will spend an evening or two in Windsor.

Mike Mularkey will announce his resignation as Bills head coach tomorrow, bringing this off-season's NFL coaching changes to 10. We haven't been starting a new thread for every single coaching change, so feel free to discuss the other hirings and firings in this thread as well.

I felt at the time and have felt ever since that the Chargers made a serious mistake by drafting Philip Rivers. But there's no going back now, and Rivers and Drew Brees are both on the team, although Brees' contract has expired. I always assumed the Chargers would figure out a way to keep Brees (either signing him to a long-term deal or putting the franchise tag on him again) and trade Rivers. I'm no longer so sure. First of all, Brees has a pretty serious injury to his throwing shoulder. And secondly, Chargers GM A.J.

Boomer Esiason angry. No like Herm Edwards. Specifically, Boomer's upset that Edwards left the Jets in the manner in which he did, and makes the point -- a pretty funny one, by the way -- that, "What bothers me the most is that the Jets have now been fired by four coaches, as opposed to firing coaches ... It almost makes them look as if they're the laughingstock of the league, and that makes the job search for a quality candidate that much more difficult."